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Salo, with his charming disposition, soon entirely
won over his uncle, who decided to send his nephew
to the neighboring town to study, and Salo and Bruno
were to spend their study-time as well as their holidays
together.

When the summer holidays were over, Salo and Bruno
moved into town, but even this leave-taking did not
prove very hard. The children were not to be
separated very long, for the boys were to spend many
week-ends at home, besides all their holidays.
Bruno had soon written to his mother from town that
she need not worry at all about the Knippel boys, as
they scarcely ever saw them.

When Mrs. Maxa cannot help recalling all her former
fears and plans for the future because her son’s
violent temper caused her such anxiety, she said to
herself with a glad heart:

Oh how can we Thine acts foretell,
When Thou are far more wise than
we?

Apollonie has become the real, true Castle-Apollonie
of yore and manages for her master’s sake to
live in undisturbed peace with Mr. Trius. She
is taking such good care of the Baron and his little
adopted daughter that a bloom of health has spread
over their cheeks. On sunny days the Baron can
frequently be seen walking up and down the terrace
on Leonore’s arm, and his young guide is very
careful of his health and looks after him tenderly.
The sound of a beautiful voice can often be heard through
the open castle windows, for Leonore has inherited
her mother’s voice, and it gives her uncle the
keenest pleasure to listen to the songs she used to
sing in bygone days. The people in Nolla unanimously
agree that the ghost of Wildenstein has gone to his
eternal rest, because peace again is reigning at the
castle.